GOD LOOKED AND SAW...

GOD LOOKED AT ADAM AND SAW A WORLD. HE LOOKED AT ABRAHAM AND SAW NATIONS. IN JACOB, A DECEIVER, HE SAW A MESSIAH. IN MOSES THE MURDERER, GOD SAW A DELIVERER. CAN YOU IMAGINE LOOKING AT A STAMMERING YOUNG MAN AND SEEING THE GREATEST LEADER IN HISTORY?

GOD SAW A KING IN A SHEPHERD BOY. WHEN THE ISRAELITES WANTED A KING, GOD SENT SAMUEL TO THE HOME OF JESSE. WHEN JESSE HEARD WHY SAMUEL WAS THERE, HE DRESSED UP ALL HIS SONS, THE HANDSOME ONE, THE TALL ONE, THE CURLY HAIRED ONE, THE STRONG ONE, THE MUSCULAR ONE. ALL THE SONS OF JESSE TWIRLED OUT BEFORE SAMUEL. FROM THE GREATES TO THE LEAST. WITH HIS VASE OF ANOINTING OIL, SAMUEL WATCHED JESSE'S SHOW AS HE PRESENTED HIS SONS: THIS IS MY INTELLIGENT SON WHO GRADUATED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF I DON'T KNOW WHAT. AFTER THE GUY GAVE A SPEECH, SAMUEL SAID NO. FINALLY, THE NEXT SON CAME OUT DRESSED LIKE PAT PAULSON AND GOD SAID NO. A THIRD SON GAVE A NICE SPEECH ABOUT PHILOSOPHY AND AGAIN GOD SAID, NO. FINALLY AFTER JESSE HAD PARADED ALL OF HIS SONS BEFORE HIM, SAMUEL SAID, I'M SORRY, NON OF THESE IS GOD'S CHOICE FOR KING. DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER SONS?

THEN JESSE SAID, YES...WELL NO. I JUST REMEMBERED. I DO HAVE A LITTLE BOY, MY YOUNGEST SON. HE'S JUST A LITTLE RUNT WHO'S OUT TAKING CARE OF THE SHEEP. HE'S NOT DRESSED UP LIKE MY OTHER SONS, NOR HAVE HIS HANDS BEEN MANICURED AND HIS BODY SCENTED WITH PERFUMES FROM THE EAST. THIS GUY'S REALLY SMELLY BECAUSE HE'S BEEN OUT WITH THE SHEEP FOR QUITE SOME TIME.

"BRING HIM", SAMUEL REPLIED. LET ME LOOK AT HIM. SO JESSE SENT FOR THE YOUNGER SON, WHEN SAMUEL SAW JESSE'S YOUNGEST SON WALK INTO THE HOUSE, HE BEGAN TO UNSCREW THE LID OFF HIS VASE. I THINK I HAVE FOUND THE GUY I'M LOOKING FOR, SAMUEL SAID.

MOST OF US ARE LIKE JESSE. WE LOOK, BUT WE DON'T SEE. WERE YOU THE BLACK SHEEP IN YOUR FAMILY? (YOU KNOW GOD LIKES SHEEP) HAS YOUR FAMILY TOLD YOU THAT YOU ARE A NOBODY? HAVE YOU BEEN PUT OFF AND PUT OUT AND TOLD SO MANY TIMES THAT YOU WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING THAT YOU AHVE BEGUN TO BELIEVE IT? DO YOU FEEL LIKE THE BLACK SHEEP?

YOU ARE PROBABLY THE ONE GOD IS WAITING FOR IN THE HOUSE, GOD SEES THINGS DEEP WITHIN YOU THAT OTHERS CAN'T SEE. THEY LOOK AT YOU AND SEE A NOBODY; GOD LOOKS AT YOU AND SEES A WORTHWHILE SOMEBODY. YOU MAY SPEND YOUR WHOLE LIFE COMPETING WITH OTHERS-TRYING TO PROVE THAT YOU ARE SOMEBODY-AND STILL FEEL LIKE NOBODY. BE FREE FROM THAT TODAY! YOU DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE WITH THAT ANY LONGER. YOU DON'T HAVE TO TRY TO BE SOMEBODY, BECAUSE YOU ARE SOMEBODY. I SAMUEL 16TH CHAPT.

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